Austria is one of those nations which is known by everybody, but visited by few. Though considered to be within the very epicentre of Europe, economically, culturally and technologically it’s a nation living in and on its past. I was in Austria to research a book about an amazing Australian, born in and exiled from Vienna who went to Shanghai in China, and after the war, given a safe haven in Sydney.
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